Question on wood movement (twisting)

once you start milling wood you need to get it cut to size and assembled as quickly as possible or else you risk your wood moving again. some tricks are to sticker your wood with a heavy weight on top and see if it will straight out or leave it in the sun and some times that will take the warp out, just use it really fast before it cups again.hope this helps.

-- Roper - master of sawdust-

When you make cuts it releases internal stresses so it can move some more. Once it’s milled it’s time to get busy :)

-- I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

There are a few things I learned when milling lumber, Try to take off of both sides as evenly as possible. And once milled, if you’re not going to use it right away, store it properly by either stickering it (and weighing it down) or I know a few people that wrap the wood with seran(spelling?) wrap.

Thanks for the responses… another lesson learned from LJ’s.

-- Hutch - North Dallas, Tx - Safety First